Sex selection attempts to control the sex of new births in order to select a desired sex. This shows our communities continual marginalization of women throughout the world. When it comes to sex selection and gendercide, it is normal to think that it must be happening only in countries like China and India which have a very manly controlling community and they prefer men over women all the time. However it is actually happening in Unites States as well. Gender is a term pertaining to various biological characteristics that can identify an individual as female or male. In our society, we have gender biases and sadly females are targeted and discriminated. Gender preference has a long history in Unites States and it has become a common issue
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I t is about feelings and attractions that an individual can feel towards another individual. Sexuality can affect one 's characteristics and beliefs towards culture and gender identity. By educating our society about sexuality it is essential to make emphasis on the tolerance and awareness necessary to help understand various perspectives of gender preferences. Therefore, human sexuality classes helps to understand topics that are often left behind which are equally important than any other biological term. It all starts with education which contributes to the prevention of social exclusion towards women. Personal beliefs, values or morals contributes to an important part of a human being and women are equally important as men when talking about these values. It is well known that the dominant gender are males and they are seeing as the elites and powerful individual while simultaneously marginalizing women through history. We have become a society where gender, race and ethnicity are ranked and discriminated dividing it into a superior or inferior group. In a researched called Sex-Selection Abortions: A Matter of Choice (2012) Williams references another scholar reiterating -Mchanan’s solution to the sexist cultures marginalization of women, “…the solution in this case is to eliminate the social discrimination, not to eliminate the victim of it.” Today’s patriarchal society …show more content…
The alarming result of this situation is that it prioritize the rise in male to female ratios within many other nation like China and India. Another important point discussed in Vogel’s article is that “Between, three and six million such abortions were performed in India and in the 2000’s compared to between one and four million in the 1990’s” (2012). China has also experience the phenomena of gender discrimination at birth. With the many physicians and illegal clinicas practicing abortions and heartlessly killing female fetus it is very alarming to think the injustice and the level of awful actions a human been can do when living in a society used to follow injustice and not standing up for changes. After these gender-based abortions it is easily noticeable the difference on sex ratios. While analysing another article published by PLOS named High Adult Sex Ratios and Risky Behaviors: A Systematic Review, it states that “Sex-selective abortions have become so widespread that the global sex ratio at birth has increased...” this research aimed to relate the connections between the rise of risky behaviors like unsafe sex and the ratio abnormalities (Bien, Cai, Emch, Parish, & Tucker, 2013). These
I t is about feelings and attractions that an individual can feel towards another individual. Sexuality can affect one 's characteristics and beliefs towards culture and gender identity. By educating our society about sexuality it is essential to make emphasis on the tolerance and awareness necessary to help understand various perspectives of gender preferences. Therefore, human sexuality classes helps to understand topics that are often left behind which are equally important than any other biological term. It all starts with education which contributes to the prevention of social exclusion towards women. Personal beliefs, values or morals contributes to an important part of a human being and women are equally important as men when talking about these values. It is well known that the dominant gender are males and they are seeing as the elites and powerful individual while simultaneously marginalizing women through history. We have become a society where gender, race and ethnicity are ranked and discriminated dividing it into a superior or inferior group. In a researched called Sex-Selection Abortions: A Matter of Choice (2012) Williams references another scholar reiterating -Mchanan’s solution to the sexist cultures marginalization of women, “…the solution in this case is to eliminate the social discrimination, not to eliminate the victim of it.” Today’s patriarchal society …show more content…
The alarming result of this situation is that it prioritize the rise in male to female ratios within many other nation like China and India. Another important point discussed in Vogel’s article is that “Between, three and six million such abortions were performed in India and in the 2000’s compared to between one and four million in the 1990’s” (2012). China has also experience the phenomena of gender discrimination at birth. With the many physicians and illegal clinicas practicing abortions and heartlessly killing female fetus it is very alarming to think the injustice and the level of awful actions a human been can do when living in a society used to follow injustice and not standing up for changes. After these gender-based abortions it is easily noticeable the difference on sex ratios. While analysing another article published by PLOS named High Adult Sex Ratios and Risky Behaviors: A Systematic Review, it states that “Sex-selective abortions have become so widespread that the global sex ratio at birth has increased...” this research aimed to relate the connections between the rise of risky behaviors like unsafe sex and the ratio abnormalities (Bien, Cai, Emch, Parish, & Tucker, 2013). These